Dr. Elaine Browne

Lecturer in Medical Sciences (Cell Biology & Genetics)

Dr Browne teaches Cell Biology and Immunology in the School of Medicine. She has 14 years of experience in the fields of cancer cell biology, radiobiology and immunology.

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Dr Browne started her research career in the field of cancer cell biology assessing the efficacy of amino acid (arginine) deprivation as a means of anticancer therapy for her doctoral studies (University of Aberdeen and Cancer Treatments International, Zurich). She then moved to the University of St Andrews to work with Dr Peter Bryant on the bystander effect of radiation cancer therapy. After 3 years working in the field of radiobiology, she changed fields and began working with Dr Simon Powis on the way in which the MHC Class I molecule HLA-B27 misfolds in the inflammatory arthritic condition Ankylosing spondylitis.